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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.
Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.
There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.
Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.
Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.